Nursery Manager
Nursery Manager
Nurse Seekers are proud to be working on behalf of an excellent well-established Nursery who are looking to recruit a Nursery Manager for their setting based near Blandford Forum, Dorset.
The ideal Nursery Manager candidate will need to maintain strong organisation skills and attention to detail and display resourcefulness to ensure the setting has the right culture, policies and resources to deliver the high standards of childcare and early years education expected by parents, Ofsted, and in accordance with the companies values
The Nursery School is a 80-place day nursery for 0-years to five-year olds and has an excellent standing in the community and has been established for over 20 years!
For this position you are required to have:
- Early years education and care qualification to at least NVQ Level 3 or equivalent, with preference for degree qualified practitioners
- Experience in a Nursery manager capacity
- Understanding of special educational needs and equality of opportunity
- Paediatric first-aid and food hygiene trained
- Ability to communicate effectively both in writing and orally
- Experience with nursery administration (children invoices, payroll and timesheets)
- Competent PC user (word processing, spreadsheets, emails)
- Experience in providing staff training
Main duties and responsibilities
· Conducting thorough risk assessments of the nursery environment and effectively ensures that relevant Health and Safety legislation is adhered to at the setting
· Ensuring the highest standards of childcare are delivered at the setting
· Consistently ensuring nursery operations adhere to Storal Learning policies and procedures
· Conducting regular staff supervisions, and creates plans for staff development
· Delivering high setting occupancy, promoting the setting through local marketing
· Hiring and developing top talent
· Demonstrating strong leadership and promoting Storal’s Values and Behaviours
· Improving financial performance year over year
· Acting as the Designated Safeguarding Lead at the nursery and hold overall responsibility for the day to day management of safeguarding and child protection policies within the nursery
· Building an effective parent engagement strategy, creating links between home and the setting.
Benefits Include:
- Annual wellness day off
- Company sick pay
- 50% childcare discount
- Access to retail and other discounts through Perkbox
- Holidays increasing to 22 days after 2 years’ service and 25 days after 5 years’ service
- Performance related bonuses
- Dedicated learning and development support
- Access to one-to-one confidential counselling sessions through our Employee Assistance Programme
If this sounds like the type of vacancy you feel you have been looking for, then apply today! Alternatively call Ollie on
Reference: 52436096
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